John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones (6 July 1747-18 July 1792) was a Scottish-American sailor who was the commander of USS Bonhomme Richard.

Biography
John Paul was from Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, joining the Royal Navy. He was thrown out because he murdered another sailor in a quarrel and changed his name from John Paul to "John Paul Jones". He fled to the Thirteen Colonies and became a naval admiral in 1775. He participated in naval duels with Richard Howe's British fleet but his greatest feats were the battle of Flamborough Head and the Raid on Whitehaven in 1779. After the end of the American Revolutionary War, he found service with the Russian Empire during the Wars of Catherine the Great.